why a person want to do this there is speculation that some cases of children putting needles into stories while they're sitting on shop shelves other cases are complete hoaxes people pretending to find needles in strawberries once they're home it's not a joke it's not funny you're putting the livelihoods of hardworking strains at risk and you're scaring children and you're a coward and you're a grown up and if you do that sort of thing in this country we will come after you and we will throw the book at you the government plans to bring in emergency legislation with prison sentences of up to ten years for hoaxes and up to fifteen years for contamination in danger and others. those in australia strawberry industry are recommending that people cut up their brains before biting into it but some are choosing not to buy strawberries at all and the industry worth maybe one hundred million dollars a year that a crisis strawberries that are being sold are heavily discounted almost

a sloth the equivalent of one us dollar upon it and farmers of other fruits a fearful to someone has claimed to have found a needle in a banana and in sydney an apple there just freaked me out but i'm thinking my daughter normally just grabs and just biting the apples the strawberry scare threatens to spread. as consumers become more aware of the health effects of consuming sugar soda giants are doing everything to stay profitable the coca-cola company is even looking at experimenting with a new in gradient it's admitted to looking at the market for cannabis related products coca cannabis anyone not quite there is a chemical found in marijuana known as c.b.d. it's already used in beverages in locations where the drug is legalized but it's not psychoactive drinks containing it though are higher priced than sugar infused soda coke is also on a buying spree it bought costa coffee for five point one billion dollars earlier this month and on tuesday it stepped up in australia and fermented tea company.

since the united states invaded afghanistan in two thousand and one one song is echoed across cobbles neighborhoods it's api birthday a blast from the speakers of hundreds of ice cream carts across the capital but the recent surge in violence ahead of the upcoming election there has caused their profits to plummet al-jazeera schalit ballasts reports now from kabul. happy birthday floats over the blast. the music comes from an ice cream cone the man pushing. the thirty five year olds not from kabul but its streets and this truly give him an income but lately even in the heat of summer people don't want his ice cream the streets have become too dangerous. during the karzai government life was very good we just crossed the street and be sold out of ice creams now from morning to evening we console them all. he starts his day at eight am and

finishes at eight pm fitting in the habits of normal life among his route. he started this job in two thousand and two when the americans invaded back been made a lot of money now there are more attacks more chick points and fewer people on the streets to sell to. what i'm passing checkpoints they think i have a bomb in my car so they stop me and start checking and it's ruining my icecream because they open the carton of your belts his friends can relate twenty two year old chums the law has sold burgers outside a mosque for four years his income is just twenty five percent of what it once was we ask him if he sees a link between security and sales. very much we used to have a very good business but it's deteriorating day by day this week we have sold very little. to afghans even twenty cents for an ice cream is twenty seems too much in

the last quarter the international monetary fund found the continued violence and to listen to around the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections as pursing economic confidence and growth. there are dozens of ice cream sellers and sure elise patch of kabul he competes with fifty most mean does make about one hundred dollars a month from this year elise supports his wife and four children he says he's looking for change in upcoming elections on their. i want security for my country and peace for my country and a prosperous future but i will not vote for president ashraf. ghani came into office as international combat forces pulled out taking with them billions in military spending since then security has worsened and so has the economy. surely keep talking happy birthday rings hopeful over the neighborhood used to draw people out of their harms now not even ice cream control afghans to the streets.

emerging market currencies of been a big focus for us here on counting the cost these past few months and this week we saw turkey unveil its long awaited plan to find a way out of crisis it's finance minister but i'll bet rock was put in charge of the economy two months ago by his father in law president richard perle the one he sharply cut turkey's growth forecasts for this year and next he also promised to slash public spending by nearly ten billion dollars and blame some of turkey's problems on a spats with the u.s. almost lost but this period is a period when economic sanctions are being used like weapons it's a global each challenging period on the tenth of august turkey became part of this process because its economy and currency were targeted with attacks. currency was in india too where the government to struggle to defend the rupee non-essential import restrictions announced this week of left businesses unhappy and there are fears of protectionist policies being put into place the rupee is now the worst

performing currency in asia despite government efforts to turn the tide india is often referred to as the world's fastest growing large economy but its currency has hit a series of record lows versus the dollar over the past few months that weakness in the currency has coincided with rising global oil prices compounding the pain all of this means that the current account deficit has widened it's not two point four percent of gross domestic product so far growth has held up gross domestic product grew eight point two percent from april to june and that's its fastest rise in two years but there are worries that it may take a hit to the finance minister it india is alan jaitley he's blamed the depreciation of the rupee on global factors including the us china trade wall but joining us now from glasgow is greg when greg is chief economist at global counsel greg good to have you with us again on counting the cost of what is going on at the moment with

the with india's economy what are you advising clients. well india is suffering from a currency crisis at the moment the rupee has fallen by twelve percent that's quite significance there are a few factors that are contributing to that the price of oil is going up for a country like india which imports much of its energy that pushes up the import bill and the export side is supposed that are concerns about the global environment for trade u.s. protectionism. but probably above all there are concerns about divergence and global monetary conditions u.s. interest rates rising that's exposed vulnerabilities quite a few countries argentina turkey also you see in currencies from across asia and india has not been immune to that that's probably why the currency is under pressure and that's that's a concern for the governments you mention one of the factors is the price of fuel

india buying oil of course in dollars and as the repeat falls or as just gets more and more expensive well exactly and keynes for quite a large parts of the the bill for average indians. the price of energy so it really does squeeze living standards and it's a political concern as i suggested and there's not a whole lot that the the indian. economy ministry the finance ministry the governments can do about that other than try and address other factors that are helping to put downward pressure on the on the repeats so factors such as raising interest rates that's a move in the right direction by the reserve bank you mentioned turkey on thursday turkey announced a new economic plan which is well it's failed to impress really it cut its

growth forecast in that he can. that plan is india going to be forced to follow suit. well i mean turkey actually today he is trying to deal with. concerns that it that its economic plan has been to the that its response to what is a much more significant. currency crisis facing turkey as has has been a adequate turkish leaders fall in something like forty percent over the course of this year the country is a new finance minister it turns out it's the president's son in law that has arguably damaged credibility of economic policy making insert and the new finance minister is trying to flesh out its tuckey's probably see response as india's not quite in the same situation as turkey turkey has a much larger current account deficit inflation is much higher in turkey that

there are greater concerns about the stability and sustainability of growth in turkey and while the indian policy response so far. arguably has not been adequate more bill will be required and the direction of policy in india is questionable with import curbs turkey has a bigger challenge in convincing markets that actually the substance behind the headlines of the economic plan that the finance minister is fleshing out today gregor really good to talk to your counting the cost but he thinks they for being with us you're very welcome. now in japan a teaming up to manufacture electric cars the new nine billion dollar project involves building several factories from scratch the new industry is expected to be up and running by twenty twenty for the first consul roll off the assembly line will be called qatada it will be launched in conjunction with the fifth a world cup qatar twenty twenty two the project is backed by all of japan and

finally this week space the final frontier for tourism if you're to believe rocket company space x. this week it gave its first customer of the tour a gate and b. has more on plans for what would be an historic trip around the moon. the japanese entrepreneur here hopes to be the first person to fly to the moon in a private rocket won't reveal how much it's going to cost but you suck him in south says it will be worth it and he won't be alone on the more than three hundred eighty thousand kilometer journey which is shared jeweled the twenty twenty three the japanese billionaire pitched an idea to the california based company space x. he wants to make it an artistic collective experience so he's inviting as many as eight other people including artists designers and architects to join him in what

would be an historic moment he hopes ing the moon up close and the earth from space will inspire new creative ideas for mankind through the eighty's the moon has a freer our imagination and without the laws and the respect for them erm our planet's constant pattern now i name to these projects the moon. he'll say says the c.e.o. of space x. musk might be extended an invite space x. is already logged several miles days in space exploration it was the first private company to launch a spacecraft into orbit and bring it back to earth in two thousand and ten the black folk and rocket which will take passengers to the moon is still being developed musk says there will be several unmanned launches and countless hours of training before the first commercial trip whenever it's the first plate of an of something or a new technology and we're talking about deep space. you know you have to be

a very brave person to do that this is not no small matter space tourism launched in two thousand and one when a californian businessman paid to go on a russian rocket to the international space station if mays our makes it to the moon he'll join an elite group of astronauts who can look up at the moon from earth and say i've been there. and that is our show for this week if you'd like to get in touch with us about anything that you've seen this week you can tweet me i am at a sit in on twitter please use the hash tag a j c t c when you do or you can drop us a line counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our e-mail address as always there's plenty more for you on live at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. that takes you straight to our page and they will fight individual reports links at a time episodes feature catch up and that's it for this edition counting the cost i'm adrian steadicam for the whole team here in doha thanks for being with us the

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before the senate. two days after a ferry accident in tanzania a survivor was found inside the capsule. it's shit. and on the eve of a presidential election the straight the opposition's campaign headquarters. iran has summoned envoys of the u.k. netherlands and denmark accusing the countries of harboring opposition groups it follows an attack on a military parade that killed twenty nine people iran's military says the attackers were trained by two gulf countries with ties to the u.s. and israel it happened in a vase near the border with iraq an arab separatist group claimed responsibility for the attack as did i saw al-jazeera cannot verify that show about us reports. iranian strops the pavement during

a military parade for iran's famed revolutionary guards. as they marched gunmen launched a rear and deadly attack against soldiers and bystanders. committed as a similar experience in the middle of the parade when we realized that a group wearing fake military clothing who were armed attacked our children from behind us and then fired on women and children most of the victims were members of the revolutionary guards all the women and children were caught in the crossfire badly joris and. this man is asking why his four year old daughter had to die charla factories thought people terrorists who had previously bought their weapons to the area days before they hit their weapons then when people came to see the parade and gathered they grabbed their weapons and fired at the people with machine guns on them. the parade was the start of sacred defense week commemorating iranians who died during the eight year war with iraq in the one nine hundred

eighty s. an air of separatist group after as national resistance claimed responsibility for the attack saying they want independence. the resistance is an arab national resistance that has no foreign agenda we work only for voz there is no support from any foreign country. the group refusing allegations that it is foreign funded that tehran insists this supported by the us saudi arabia and its gulf allies iran's foreign minister tweeting terrorists recruited trained armed and paid by a foreign regime have attacked. iran holds regional terror sponsors and the us masters accountable for such attacks. the us state department spokesman said they condemned the attack and expressed sympathy in the iranian system believes that the u.s. and its allies are waging not just an economic war against iran through sanctions but are also trying to destabilize iran internally as they are fast attack was

happening prison has some rouhani was speaking at another anniversary parade in tehran he said iran will not step back from nuclear or military development because of u.s. pressure. that there was iran will neither put aside its defensive weapons nor will reduce its defensive capabilities we will add to our defensive power day by day. and he promised to show how much he values his military again warning of a crushing response to whoever was involved in this attack charlotte dallas jazeera . and trita parsi is a professor at georgetown university in washington d.c. he says there may be some truth to iran's accusations of american saudi and amorality involvement in the attack. the fact that they some of the europeans is also not particular surprise is ing since some of these separates pistorius ations are essentially headquartered in europe many of them being in london particularly this. separatist organization has been that the activities are next in line for

quite sometime so that in of itself was not surprising nor is it surprising that the iranians would be blaming or hinting at blame at the united states saudi arabia and the u.a.e. what is perhaps a little bit different this time around is that there are circumstantial evidence that makes it much more difficult to dismiss the iraq plane accusations out of hand but i mean you have a scenario in which the secretary of the national security advisor of the trumpet mr alter wrote a memo that was released back in august two thousand and seventeen in which he specifically argued that the united states should be providing assistance to this specific movement and hold to stand by its protest arabs you also have a scenario in which. it from saudi arabia the crown prince did it say last year that he's going to take the fight into iran but you had an adviser to the u.a.e. crown prince saying that this was not a terrorist attack this is stated policy and that we will see more of that when

statements of this kind are be made it's much more difficult to say that iran is or just automatically by reflex pointing their finger at the united states and some of its allies is in the region there seems to be some indications that their disability in some of these accusations in the u.s. the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation between a supreme court nominee and the woman who's accused him of sexual assault both are expected to testify before the senate on thursday christine ford says brett kavanaugh assaulted her as a party of nine hundred eighty two he denies the allegations trumpet ministration is continuing to offer strong support for cavanagh. but honestly the way some democrats have conducted themselves during this process is a disgrace the president are confident that senate republicans will manage this confirmation properly with the most respect for all concerned and i believe the

judge brett kavanaugh will soon be justice brett kavanaugh and take his seat on the supreme court of the united states of america. john hendren has more from washington d.c. . it was a nail biter of an end to a congressional game of chicken on thursday the woman who initially came out anonymously to accuse brett kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her thirty six years ago will speak under the full glare of a congressional committee the senate judiciary committee there was an agreement on saturday that the two sides will come together on sunday they are meeting again to hash out some details but it appears that it will happen on thursday now she had wanted this is christine blazin forward she had wanted this to happen on thursday she got back but she also one of the questions to be asked by the senators themselves and she wanted to speak after brett kavanaugh the u.s. supreme court nominee the committee wanted to stab at on wednesday they conceded

that point the one of the questions to be asked by a staff counsel that is a woman because all of the republicans on that committee are men and they want to cavanaugh to go second those may be among the details to be hashed out on sunday but meanwhile there was something of an embarrassment for the republicans on that committee and that is that a young man who had been a spokesman for the republicans on the committee has resigned and that was after it was discovered that he had been fired from a previous job because of a sexual assault sexual harassment allegation of his own so as we go forward mitch mcconnell the senate leader on the republican side has said that kavanagh will be confirmed mike pence said he also believes the vice president of the united states that kavanagh will be confirmed so this will all go forward on thursday and presumably if the committee has its choice after that they will simply move forward as soon as possible to a vote in the committee and then eventually in the full senate. in the us siblings

over republican congressman running for reelection in the state of arizona have launched a television ad against their brother paul's they're absolutely not working for his district and he's not listening to you and he doesn't help your interests at heart my name is tim gross or david goes or. gaston goes sir jennifer goes sour six of congressman paul goes ass nine siblings star in the scathing ad which endorsers his democratic rival david brill go size held the arizona seat since two thousand and eleven the ultra conservative politician has a history of controversial remarks it's not the first time his siblings have spoken out against him he responded by the to the ads by tweeting quote stalin would be proud. the u.s. has killed at least eighteen fighters in an airstrike about fifty kilometers outside of the southern somali city of kiss my you follows an attack on american

and local forces on the ground u.s. involvement in somalia has grown under the presidency of dan trump there have been at least twenty airstrikes this year. in tanzania a man has been found alive in an air pocket of a capsized ferry two days after it went down in lake victoria is among only forty one survivors at least two hundred nine people were killed making it one of the country's worst ferry disasters malcolm webb reports from port bell on the ugandan side of lake victoria. this is what it feels like to find your loved one among the parties pulled from the water. and who most here the same story a few lucky ones survived. the feel of a very fast and. i was lucky that i was able to swim under the water not knowing where i was see me. as i was swimming to safety i found a number of metal bars that cut my face and back of my head. and

a very major one hundred people had more than twice that on board was coming into dog when it capsized on thursday in the following hours forty people were rescued alive since then rescue workers have been recovering the dead. nearly two days after the boat hit no one imaginable one more survivor found. trapped underneath navy divers heard a knocking and pulled him out. people here wondering how it was allowed to happen and it's not the first time the ferries capsized in twenty eleven and twenty twelve between the tanzania and mainland and the islands of zanzibar hundreds died boats are often import condition and overloaded there is a need for regular beijing to make sure that the captain knows exactly how many

people he happened boarding to limits the number of people and then there is another you forty two in terms of risk you capacities especially forget sizing i didn't work it's really really fast here on the ugandan side of the lake the regulations say that the boat passengers are meant to wear life jackets even given some to ride in this boat although not in brilliant condition you see the more they hear it often there aren't enough to go around difficult for the authorities to enforce the rules the lakes fast down three hundred kilometers long waterways a crucial for trade and everyone here is working on a tight budget boat to kept running for decades before they retired this one stopped running after it collided with another in two thousand and five.